[General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP

[Faisal AlAbhoul]

Dont seek a company, have your own dedicated server or even a VPS  and install PPTP server, all you need is extra IP or maybe you dont even need one at all. The CPU overhead for real-time encryption is quite minor, even this page you are reading now might have reached your browser compressed and decompressed in a fraction of a second, you cant be too serious about CPU usage at this era, you running XT or 286 system or what? :)


--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
Date: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009, 2:52 AM

Due to the stringent legal status of piracy now, all companies have to
abide to the law and provide personal data on people downloading
pirated material.

So VPN companies, that do follow the law and don't have a political
backup, will close your account, if a complaint was sent against you,
or if they monitor your activity on their end, they will terminate it
when detecting p2p traffic.

I'm not saying there aren't companies that allow you to torrent away;
what I'm saying is that such companies are getting very rare, and
probably would have their prices sky-rocket.

There was a company called HushMail, that was said to have and offer
the strongest email encryption services ever. I think they offered
4096 bit encryption. Many people used that service, until 1 or 2 years
ago they were issued a subpoena and were forced to hand over the
*private* key of a customer and the government decrypted all the
emails.

In UK, 2 years ago many people were arrested and fined for piracy when
the government issued a related law. People started encrypting their
traffic and it became virtual impossible to detect them and indict
them of piracy. Azureus/Vuze is a bitorrent client that supports
encryption.

So, you could use a VPN connection to avoid local ISP traffic shaping
and use client encryption to avoid your account being closed. All of
that at the cost of losing bandwidth (and CPU cycles) due to
encryption overhead.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>
> Why would they close your own VPN account, Majed?
>
> have a go at one of the companies here  http://www.strongvpn.com/
>
>
> --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail..com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 10:01 PM
>
> Won't they close the account if it was in the states? They're being so
> up-tight about it there...
>
> In Europe, things have changed a lot since Pirate Bay lost the case
> AND the appeal...
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>> Just get a $5 VPN account to the states or europe and override the whole
>> local net constraints.
>>
>> --- On Mon, 10/8/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
>> Subject: [General] Good and torrent-friendly ISP
>> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
>> Date: Monday, 10 August, 2009, 3:52 PM
>>
>> Salam,
>>
>> A friend of mine is looking for a good and torrent-friendly ISP. Your
>> recommendations are appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>
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